Speaker 1: Thank you everybody for joining us on this park Hopper
Speaker 1: episode of Magical Rewind and we are very excited to
Speaker 1: speak with one of what I would call the two
Speaker 1: dudes from the movie we just watched and well loved. Frankly,
Speaker 1: so if I can't even.
Speaker 2: Wait any longer, I can't wait any longer.
Speaker 1: This is the man himself, the man, well, the man
Speaker 1: who unfortunately in the first ninety seconds of the movie
Speaker 1: fell off his motorcycle twice and ended up really hurting
Speaker 1: his leg the second time, so his sister had to
Speaker 1: jump in for him.
Speaker 2: But can you please help us? Welcome Trevor O'Brien.
Speaker 3: Hey you guys doing.
Speaker 1: I love it and dressed for the part. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, I had to pull out this old relic. I't
Speaker 3: believe I still had it, but I mean, this is
Speaker 3: the original.
Speaker 4: It's there, is the real.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, SETS surprised it still fit.
Speaker 2: I was just about to say.
Speaker 1: The idea that I could pull something out from like
Speaker 1: twenty years ago and it.
Speaker 2: Still fits is amazing.
Speaker 3: The shirt, I think was fine. I don't think I
Speaker 3: was gonna fit into the Andy pants I got it
Speaker 3: Fox Andy pants, so I opted not to put those on,
Speaker 3: but I had I had to leadly square the shirt
Speaker 3: I couldn't.
Speaker 4: Yes, I love it.
Speaker 1: You just reade my year right there, right so happy
Speaker 1: right now. I have to start by saying, So, I
Speaker 1: have a stepdaughter who, as I've done in her life
Speaker 1: since she was you know, eleven or twelve.
Speaker 2: But when she found out that I was interviewing you,
Speaker 2: she was so happy.
Speaker 1: You and your co star were like her biggest crushes
Speaker 1: growing up, and she was like, please tell them how
Speaker 1: much I love them, how much they just I was
Speaker 1: obsessed with their movie.
Speaker 3: Give my love back to them. I always love, you know,
Speaker 3: hearing from fans, and you know, it was such an
Speaker 3: honor and fun part to play and be a part
Speaker 3: of this you know, revolutionary film for back in the day,
Speaker 3: you know. And you know Riley was great, you know,
Speaker 3: so I mean, I I think he got way more
Speaker 3: you know, fan love than I did, maybe maybe just
Speaker 3: a little bit. He's really pretty. I even I'm at
Speaker 3: a hard time you know, on set. So but but
Speaker 3: you know, it was such a great cast. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know a lot of Austin Scott, Tara, you know,
Speaker 3: Timothy Carhart and everyone was just so so amazing and
Speaker 3: to get to be a part of that at my age,
Speaker 3: you know, I was in high school. I was sixteen,
Speaker 3: and you know Jerrymy McGrath, Travis Pastrana. Yeah, all those
Speaker 3: guys in the film were like my idols at the time,
Speaker 3: and so it was such a cool thing to get
Speaker 3: to be a part of it.
Speaker 2: You know, Well, that's a perfect place to start.
Speaker 1: And so because I want to get to fort how
Speaker 1: you grew up if you were a motocross fan. But
Speaker 1: let's start with when's the first time you heard about
Speaker 1: the film? Was this just a regular audition that came
Speaker 1: on your desk or how did you hear about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So, I mean it was just a you know,
Speaker 3: just a normal audition, and it was very hush hush,
Speaker 3: you know when when I went to audition, they didn't
Speaker 3: give you very much of any information. In fact, I
Speaker 3: think what we read wasn't even actually in the script.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, they they did. It was originally called twelve Flap,
Speaker 3: which is you know, based on because it's based off
Speaker 3: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Yeah, they let us know that it
Speaker 3: was called twelve Flap, and it was kind of you know, actually,
Speaker 3: I don't even know if they told that that came
Speaker 3: in later, but originally it was Originally it was it
Speaker 3: was named that. And so when I asked about the film,
Speaker 3: because I was trying to learn about the character, it
Speaker 3: was like, you know, who is he? What's you know?
Speaker 3: Can you tell me anything about the stories that will
Speaker 3: help me with, you know, to prepare for this audition.
Speaker 3: And the only thing that they told me was like,
Speaker 3: you know, you're the star. You're this motocross. He wants,
Speaker 3: you know, to compete. And that was pretty much all
Speaker 3: I knew. So I went in auditioned, I loved it,
Speaker 3: you know, got a callback to go you know, through
Speaker 3: the process. I didn't get the script for the film
Speaker 3: until the night before filming, so I never know, I knew,
Speaker 3: I knew nothing about it. And that's why I say
Speaker 3: the truth is I didn't even know it was based
Speaker 3: off Shakespeare's telfth Night. Otherwise I would have had some
Speaker 3: knowledge about who my character was and what was going
Speaker 3: to happen. Yeah, I'm reading it for the first time,
Speaker 3: having no clue that this has anything to do with
Speaker 3: Shakespeare's twelth Night, and I'm reading, and I'm reading, and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden ten pages into it, I
Speaker 3: break my leg and I'm like, where.
Speaker 2: Did I go?
Speaker 3: I'm out of the film. And as the sixteen year
Speaker 3: old who like loves motocross and getting to race and
Speaker 3: ride and do stuff like that, I was like, wait
Speaker 3: what the film writing with Jeremy McGrath and Travis Oh,
Speaker 3: there was some disappointment, but.
Speaker 2: That's fair, that's all, you know, you know, And now.
Speaker 3: As I'm older, like I said again, it was kind
Speaker 3: of a revolutionary film because there wasn't a lot of
Speaker 3: film about you know, women and you know, entering the
Speaker 3: man's world, and you know, and it's so funny because
Speaker 3: if you look at it back now and you just go, wow,
Speaker 3: that's so crazy that it was even that was even
Speaker 3: a thing. Yeah, and now it's to get to be
Speaker 3: kind of a part of that thing where all of
Speaker 3: a sudden we're coming out with that and empowering you
Speaker 3: know women, and not that they needed our help with
Speaker 3: that at all whatsoever, but that we were aware of it,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, And that it was such
Speaker 3: a great, you know, such a great film. It was
Speaker 3: so much fun to be a part of and everyone
Speaker 3: was really great, and it had a really good message
Speaker 3: and it was just a cool story.
Speaker 2: It was a great movie.
Speaker 1: It was a great movie. It really was a phenomenal movie.
Speaker 1: It holds up. I watched it last night again, so
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it was one of those things where
Speaker 1: it just it works.
Speaker 2: Everything about it works.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I guess when your source material is Shakespeare, I guess
Speaker 1: it kind of right exactly because a lot of people
Speaker 1: didn't know Shakespeare. Big motocross guy he was.
Speaker 2: He was huge on the.
Speaker 3: Circuit was something something to be said for.
Speaker 2: Did you now did you ride before this movie at all?
Speaker 3: So full transparency, I did not. I always loved or
Speaker 3: had a passion for motorcycles, but my family and my
Speaker 3: parents were like, you know, as an actor, They're like,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I want to do that. However,
Speaker 3: because of the film, I got really into it. I
Speaker 3: bought two of the bikes, the hero bike and one
Speaker 3: of the extra bikes. So I had two of the
Speaker 3: motocross bikes.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: Sadly sold them, oh no, I newly had kids. I
Speaker 3: got rid of them, and honestly, I don't think who
Speaker 3: ever bought them and even really understood what they had.
Speaker 3: But but I did have them. I loved it I
Speaker 3: went riding. I was terror to begin with. So I'd
Speaker 3: go out riding and sometimes I'd wear the Andy Carson outfit,
Speaker 3: just not thinking about it because it's what I had.
Speaker 3: And people would be like, oh my gosh, you're Andy
Speaker 3: Carson and they want me to do all these tricks
Speaker 3: and then they'd see me like eat it and they'd
Speaker 3: do wrong with Damn. They'd look at my friends and
Speaker 3: be like, what is going on right now and they
Speaker 3: just shake your head, he's having a bad day or so.
Speaker 2: Were they were they? They were rms? Weren't they? Were
Speaker 2: they r M one twenty five?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Suzuki won twenty five. They had a lot
Speaker 3: of power. I mean they were amazing.
Speaker 2: But oh there were great bikes. I rode.
Speaker 1: I rode growing up, so full disclosure, I rode growing up.
Speaker 1: My friends and I were the little motorcycle gang, but
Speaker 1: we were all awful, so it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Like we were that gang of guys.
Speaker 1: Without being cool or skilled or talented in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always said we were the kids from Karate Kid
Speaker 2: without the money or the talent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it definitely it definitely got me into it.
Speaker 3: After that, I bought a Dukate. I was writing in
Speaker 3: the Dukati for a while. Oh, we had the monster
Speaker 3: in nine nine. It was the black Matte, Black Name
Speaker 3: Good bike. So it was really sweet and it'll get
Speaker 3: rid of that. And now I have a KLR six hundred.
Speaker 3: You're geez.
Speaker 2: This movie got you into motorcycles.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I was hooked ever since. I only only
Speaker 3: regret I wish I had was that I got to
Speaker 3: start sooner, you know, so that way I could have
Speaker 3: done more of the tricks in the film myself. I
Speaker 3: got to ride, like very minimally, but you know, I
Speaker 3: have to hand it out to like David Barrett, who
Speaker 3: was our stunt coordinator, you know, Clay Coolan, Jack Carpenter,
Speaker 3: Regis Harenting, who I think was actually my stunt double.
Speaker 3: And I mean, they just did amazing jobs and made
Speaker 3: me look so good. And I tried to for the fans,
Speaker 3: keep keep the Andy Carson in there as much as
Speaker 3: I could, but I had to be honest with people.
Speaker 3: I was like, look, I like riding, but these are
Speaker 3: the real stars. These are the guys, you know, who
Speaker 3: make me look good. And without them, there's no way.
Speaker 4: Did any of the actors get a chance. I mean,
Speaker 4: because it's different than rollerblading or surfing. Yeah, it's I
Speaker 4: mean that you can get really hurt very easily. So
Speaker 4: did any of the actors that could ride even get
Speaker 4: a chance to really ride in.
Speaker 3: The film, like I said, very minimally kind of in
Speaker 3: the beginning, And then I think they realized the liability
Speaker 3: with all that and how yeah you would have been
Speaker 3: to get hurt. So they really just kind of put
Speaker 3: you know, that to an end very quickly. In the beginning.
Speaker 3: We did get to practice, We did ride a little
Speaker 3: bit around, and like I said, I was hooked the
Speaker 3: moment that I could. They almost had to like keep
Speaker 3: me off the motorcycles. You got to be there when
Speaker 3: Jerry m McGrath Travis Pastrana were doing their thing.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: It was just it was a dream con true, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's still so fun. In fact, what's funny
Speaker 3: is I still I didn't get recognized for that film
Speaker 3: more than any other film that I've done. Sure, just
Speaker 3: keep going, Wait a minute, I know you So it's
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. It's really cool.
Speaker 1: Now, did you know anybody on the cast before you
Speaker 1: shot or was this was they're throwing you all together,
Speaker 1: and hey, this is the first time you met everybody?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, we met like literally on on set. That
Speaker 3: was like that, like I said, the first time, you know,
Speaker 3: because it was so hush hush. I didn't know anything,
Speaker 3: I didn't have the script, I didn't meet anybody, so
Speaker 3: everything kind of got to be formed on set the
Speaker 3: first day, relationships and you know, chemistry and kind of
Speaker 3: just you know, running through things, you know. But definitely
Speaker 3: it was a quick and easy bond, you know. So
Speaker 3: everyone was really cool, and you know, even like Scott
Speaker 3: Terror who was like my little brother, he'd be like
Speaker 3: basically became my little brother, you know. Fun. The only
Speaker 3: thing I remember kind of feeling bad at that was
Speaker 3: a lot of Austin had the most gorgeous long hair
Speaker 3: and she had to end up cutting it. So what
Speaker 3: she has in the film is actually a wig, and
Speaker 3: with her long hair, that's that's not her real hair.
Speaker 3: Her real hair in real life was even more beautiful
Speaker 3: than the wig that she wore. The short hair that
Speaker 3: she had in the film was actually they cut it
Speaker 3: all off. So that was that was rough. I remember
Speaker 3: her being very sad that day, and I remember just
Speaker 3: like oh that for.
Speaker 4: You, But that's a dramatic.
Speaker 2: Dramatic traumatic I've got to imagine cutting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was even nearly as long as that wig.
Speaker 4: I mean that's a big cut.
Speaker 3: And she is a beautiful woman and just you know,
Speaker 3: like I said, super powerful. So like I just had
Speaker 3: so much respect for her playing that role, yeah, and
Speaker 3: doing her thing. It was really cool.
Speaker 4: So some of the people we've interviewed over it, their
Speaker 4: audition process was so fast, Like some of them said,
Speaker 4: you know, I found out on Friday that I was
Speaker 4: leaving on Monday for it. Was there a long process
Speaker 4: within the audition of actually getting to set or did
Speaker 4: it happen? It seems like sometimes Disney just works really.
Speaker 3: I mean honestly, this was nearly twenty five years ago
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I feel like it was pretty quick. I
Speaker 3: feel like I only had like two auditions I remember,
Speaker 3: and and I think within a couple of weeks we're filming.
Speaker 3: And I was in high school, so it was really
Speaker 3: kind of you know, I was in a public high
Speaker 3: school that went to Newport Harbor High And it's funny
Speaker 3: they actually wanted to kick me out because I was
Speaker 3: going to go like that for six weeks in San
Speaker 3: Diego thing. But I happened to also be a part
Speaker 3: of their theater department, and so my mom advocated for me.
Speaker 3: She was my manager at the time, who was amazing,
Speaker 3: the best manager I ever had, and advocated and said,
Speaker 3: excuse me, this is a theater department that you have
Speaker 3: him in. This is what he's designed to do. Why
Speaker 3: would you, you know, you know, persecute him for doing
Speaker 3: what he should be doing.
Speaker 4: I mean, in California law too, as long as there's
Speaker 4: a teacher on set, you're not really technically considered absent
Speaker 4: for the days. That's all made up, right. They had
Speaker 4: no no, no like basis.
Speaker 3: It was kind of funny and it was but but
Speaker 3: it was uh but it was really cool and when
Speaker 3: it had fun, and you know, obviously became I had
Speaker 3: to get my my friends to be bodyguards at the
Speaker 3: high school as those up for a while, really corner
Speaker 3: and just be like man.
Speaker 1: So that yeah, I mean, we've heard different child you know,
Speaker 1: being a child actor, all of us here being child actors,
Speaker 1: We've heard different kind of views about what how you're
Speaker 1: treated when you come back as a child actor. Were
Speaker 1: you made more of the rock star because you're the
Speaker 1: child actor, or you made more of kind of like
Speaker 1: you were bullied because you were the child actor.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It was kind of a mixture. I I feel like
Speaker 3: I had a fairly normal childhood in a lot of ways,
Speaker 3: and I think I I think I was really lucky
Speaker 3: in that in that sense, there was definitely some people
Speaker 3: who wanted to be your friend because of and so
Speaker 3: also in my case, my brother at the time was
Speaker 3: pretty famous as well, because I mean he was he
Speaker 3: did a film called The Last Action Hero and so
Speaker 3: he was huge, and then he was in My Girl too.
Speaker 3: So I had more issues with people wanting to be
Speaker 3: friends with me because they wanted to be friends with him.
Speaker 2: Or was he older or younger than you?
Speaker 3: Older than me? Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I'm the youngest
Speaker 3: of three and and so. But but yeah, I didn't
Speaker 3: have a whole lot of trouble. It had its moments,
Speaker 3: but I mean, for the most part my senior year,
Speaker 3: I ended up going to OSHA, which is Orange County
Speaker 3: High School of the Arts, and everyone there was so
Speaker 3: amazing and so talented that it just it was like family.
Speaker 3: So it was that was the best year ever had
Speaker 3: in terms of school and high school stuff like that,
Speaker 3: because it was just it was so easy to blend
Speaker 3: in and everyone was so amazing and everyone respected your craft,
Speaker 3: and it was really really a cool experience.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's nothing like finding your crowd right, finding
Speaker 2: the people that it.
Speaker 3: Was so easy. It was so easy to be in
Speaker 3: because everyone was doing something amazing and everyone was working hard,
Speaker 3: and everyone honored and respecting what you were up to.
Speaker 4: So it's different to being around, especially in high school,
Speaker 4: people that have found what they're passionate about doing, and
Speaker 4: high school, you're in college people are still trying to
Speaker 4: figure out where they're going what they want to do.
Speaker 4: So at Osha, I've heard I'm from Orange County too,
Speaker 4: so I know, like Osha is a big place where
Speaker 4: a lot of actors or phenomenal dancers, Like there's all
Speaker 4: these arts that people are like they're wanting to already
Speaker 4: hone in on a career, you know, at fourteen fifteen
Speaker 4: years old. So it's cool to find your people in
Speaker 4: that sense and be inspired by each other.
Speaker 3: Some of them are still my best friends today, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeaow, that's how.
Speaker 3: Close we were. I could I could probably name twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five people that I knew from high school that
Speaker 3: I'm still in contact with today.
Speaker 1: That's I don't know, twenty five people Total's that's amazing.
Speaker 4: We want to leave the house every once in a while.
Speaker 2: Those work.
Speaker 3: It was great at staying up with them, but they're
Speaker 3: pretty much they're better at staying up with me. But
Speaker 3: I would still say, you know that there's type of
Speaker 3: people that at any time, no matter how long it's been,
Speaker 3: you could show up and it was and it's like
Speaker 3: you clicked or they'd be there for you. You know.
Speaker 3: So I've been really really lucky and really really blessed,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Now you talked about your older brother being in the business.
Speaker 1: Was this a plan for did you want to be
Speaker 1: in the business as well, or was it just kind
Speaker 1: of easier.
Speaker 2: To follow in your brother's footsteps.
Speaker 3: So it's really kind of interesting. I started. I had
Speaker 3: my first agent when I was one and a half
Speaker 3: years old, So I started like as a baby doing
Speaker 3: you know, modeling and things like that, and then started
Speaker 3: getting into commercials when I was six years old. I
Speaker 3: think I got inducted into SAG with my first film
Speaker 3: that I did with Sissy Spasic and Aiden Quinn called
Speaker 3: a private matter about abortion in the nineteen sixties and
Speaker 3: stuff like. It was a crazy film, crazy film. So
Speaker 3: but I played like their son, and so, I mean
Speaker 3: I've been a part of member of SAG since nineteen ninety,
Speaker 3: you know, And so I didn't really choose to go
Speaker 3: in it per se.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you woke up and you were already an actor.
Speaker 3: I was always in it my mom, my mom homeschool
Speaker 3: does tell about high school and and so it made
Speaker 3: it easy to to kind of just do that. And
Speaker 3: you know, it was fun. I mean, we loved it.
Speaker 3: I was always kind of a ham and you know,
Speaker 3: I I have definitely was adhd. So I had a
Speaker 3: lot of energy. So getting to kind of be out
Speaker 3: in spots of life and be crazy and do whatever
Speaker 3: else like it worked. It worked for me.
Speaker 1: So that's been the youngest of three. Do you have
Speaker 1: two older brothers or do you have a brother and sister?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have an older brother and an older sister.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm the youngest of three too, So you you
Speaker 1: have to ham it up to get the attention.
Speaker 2: That's just the way it works. So that's so funny.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we had we had a lot of fun,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's just it's an amazing So for me,
Speaker 3: it's an amazing it's amazing lifestyle that I got to
Speaker 3: grow as a kid because I got to travel all
Speaker 3: over the place, need a ton of really amazing people,
Speaker 3: do some amazing things. I think in some ways as
Speaker 3: an adult, in some ways it was almost like more
Speaker 3: difficult because all of a sudden, You've had this really
Speaker 3: amazing fame and you know, you're doing stuff, and as
Speaker 3: you kind of get into life with kids and children
Speaker 3: and other stuff like that, they're is like this this
Speaker 3: still this need to want to perform to a certain
Speaker 3: level and be up there and stuff like that. So like,
Speaker 3: there was definitely times when I struggled with some of
Speaker 3: that stuff, you know, sure, but luckily I had really
Speaker 3: good friends, really good family. You know, I've been a
Speaker 3: builder for the last fifteen years, so I do a
Speaker 3: lot of you know, I build houses, do remodels and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. Wow, I'm rebuilding my mom's house right
Speaker 3: now because her house burned down in January twenty three,
Speaker 3: So it's been a crazy Wait.
Speaker 1: Wait, was there was there like one of our famous
Speaker 1: California fires or was there just a fire in her house?
Speaker 3: So I actually I actually currently live in Georgia right now.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, my family acquired an old Girl Scout camp
Speaker 3: that is has one hundred and ninety six acres. Wow.
Speaker 3: On that n one hundred nine six acres, there's a
Speaker 3: twelve acre like five different lodges, or there were five
Speaker 3: now there's four, a ton of ground cabins, some treehouse cabins,
Speaker 3: a giant dining hall and mess hall and all the stuff.
Speaker 3: It's built in nineteen sixty five and it has to
Speaker 3: be completely renovated. But as a general contractor and a
Speaker 3: building myself, I saw this and was like, this would
Speaker 3: be so amazing to live here, my kids grow up
Speaker 3: here and renovate it, do weddings and leadership stuff. There's
Speaker 3: a ropes course on the properties and my wife, my
Speaker 3: wife runs leadership and ropes course. She did in California
Speaker 3: for years. So that's what we want to do out here.
Speaker 3: Is we're starting actually a leadership academy called Luminary Leadership Academy,
Speaker 3: and we launch in July of twenty five, and so
Speaker 3: that's one.
Speaker 1: Is your whole family going to be on the Is
Speaker 1: it like a big family compound?
Speaker 2: Like is everybody going to be there?
Speaker 3: So yeah. I mean, right now, it's me and my
Speaker 3: family are on one side of the lake, and my
Speaker 3: mom and her husband will be on the other side
Speaker 3: of the lake. And then there's all these other buildings
Speaker 3: and stuff that we're going to, you know, do events with.
Speaker 2: I call one of the cabins. I call one of
Speaker 2: the cabins.
Speaker 3: You are more than welcome and I would love to
Speaker 3: have you come out.
Speaker 4: That would that sounds amazing.
Speaker 3: We live basically in the forest. We kind of have
Speaker 3: a farm, like twenty five chickens and ducks and dogs
Speaker 3: and cats and bunnies and all kind Oh.
Speaker 2: What a place for your kids to grow up.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 4: Oh and to just under two hundred acres is just giant.
Speaker 3: It's totally a different feel, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: We going from Newport Beach to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and I moved up to LA and was
Speaker 3: living there for six years prior to when we moved
Speaker 3: in basically twenty two, but at the very end of
Speaker 3: twenty one, okay, And so yeah, it was a pretty
Speaker 3: drastic shift.
Speaker 2: Let's say, man, I love it.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like a dcom. I mean, you literally you're living.
Speaker 2: You're living a.
Speaker 1: Dcom life right now, which perfectly brings us back to
Speaker 1: the movie, which is what we have to talk about.
Speaker 1: I hate it, yeah, because I would just love to
Speaker 1: see her talk about this all day because it sounds
Speaker 1: like a lifestyle. No, don't ever apologize, you kidding, that's
Speaker 1: it's like, that's like.
Speaker 2: The dream is having your own lake and cabins.
Speaker 3: Ugh.
Speaker 1: So, if that's a dcom, which it is, right, did
Speaker 1: you watch d.
Speaker 2: Coms before you were on a dcom?
Speaker 1: Were you were aware of the Disney Channel original movies
Speaker 1: or was this kind of your first foray into the channel.
Speaker 3: It's kind of funny. So I didn't watch a lot
Speaker 3: of film and television when I was a kid, which
Speaker 3: is which is funny because you think that's that's my job.
Speaker 3: In fact, I actually used to get in trouble with
Speaker 3: acting coaches for not watching more film and television or
Speaker 3: going into auditions, and people would reference certain characters of
Speaker 3: films and movies and I hadn't seen them, or it
Speaker 3: wasn't allowed to see them, you know. So that's what's funny.
Speaker 3: My mom was very strict about how much TV were
Speaker 3: allowed to watch and stuff like that. And so I
Speaker 3: didn't watch a whole lot of Disney original movies before.
Speaker 3: I didn't and I didn't know much about it. So
Speaker 3: that's what's so funny, is like I didn't realize how
Speaker 3: big of a deal it was when I was on
Speaker 3: a Disney original movie because.
Speaker 2: I had no clue.
Speaker 3: But you know, since then, obviously it's it's it awakened
Speaker 3: me and I started watching them. My kids love them,
Speaker 3: you know, My kids are totally all into the zombies
Speaker 3: and just like it's it's amazing, you know, And so
Speaker 3: what they've done and created is just fantastic. And you know,
Speaker 3: obviously they've been doing it for a while. This was
Speaker 3: their like twenty six you know, original Disney movie. So
Speaker 3: so yes, no, I didn't watch a whole lot just
Speaker 3: be short answer.
Speaker 1: But now, well, so now through your kids, have you
Speaker 1: been watching the Zombies movies?
Speaker 2: And I mean have you kind of seen everything?
Speaker 3: Absolutely for the most part. What's actually really funny though,
Speaker 3: is I've probably seen the same sections of those movies
Speaker 3: about twenty times, and every now and then I'll see
Speaker 3: a new part of it that I haven't seen because
Speaker 3: I'm like doing something else or helping them do this,
Speaker 3: and then I'll go, wait, is this different film? And
Speaker 3: they're like, no, the same movie. You've watched this twenty times.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know if I've remember this one
Speaker 3: ever the whole time. So yeah, I watch a lot
Speaker 3: of them. I just don't always watch them start to
Speaker 3: finish because I'm running around the house to At home,
Speaker 3: I have two older stepsons who I consider my own,
Speaker 3: who are out of the house now. They're in Colorado
Speaker 3: and they're amazing. So we got a blended family with
Speaker 3: six kids.
Speaker 4: So sick wow, she's it is a full house. Have
Speaker 4: any of the kids gotten a chance to watch yours?
Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit. They definitely have seen Motocross and
Speaker 3: they thought it was pretty pretty cool, you know. But
Speaker 3: I mean it's one of those things where it's like
Speaker 3: that's dad until other people find out, like their dad's
Speaker 3: an actor, and they're like, oh, yeah, my dosin actor
Speaker 3: who like? But my daughter she's getting into acting. In fact,
Speaker 3: what's really cool is my old acting coach who was
Speaker 3: in California moved to Atlanta three years where we moved
Speaker 3: to Georgia. But she's now training with my old acting coach.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: Well, it's the new Hollywood Atlanta is like the new Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Everybody's there now a fun full circle moment.
Speaker 3: So I mean, like I said, in terms of girl power,
Speaker 3: my daughter is a powerhouse. She she won the thescon
Speaker 3: that they do here and got to perform in front
Speaker 3: of five hundred kids, and she's.
Speaker 1: That, Oh man, you're raising every well, you know what's coming,
Speaker 1: you're raising entertain or you know what's coming.
Speaker 3: That's going for sure.
Speaker 1: So we're always curious when it comes to these dcoms.
Speaker 1: You film, you filmed the movie and it comes out,
Speaker 1: does your life.
Speaker 2: Change at all when the movie comes out?
Speaker 1: Because I mean there's some we it's so funny talking
Speaker 1: to people that film their movies or shows like we
Speaker 1: did kind of pre social media, right and then the
Speaker 1: talking to the actors who do a post social media.
Speaker 1: Was your life all that different after? Because it was
Speaker 1: a success on the channel, a big success on the channel.
Speaker 1: So did your life change too much.
Speaker 2: When you were done?
Speaker 3: Or like I said, not a lot, because I mean
Speaker 3: I mean, well, yes and no. I definitely got recognized
Speaker 3: a lot more. Definitely, you know, like got stopped in
Speaker 3: different places and you know, but it was kind of
Speaker 3: a cool, like like a cool situation for me to
Speaker 3: get it all about some of these things, and you know,
Speaker 3: and these were kind of my people at this point,
Speaker 3: you know, because most of them were riders and you know,
Speaker 3: or they wanted to be riding, and so like we
Speaker 3: got to connect over a lot of stuff. It was
Speaker 3: really cool when I got to like actually go out
Speaker 3: to like I'd go out to Glamis and the sand
Speaker 3: dunes and go ride and and so people would see
Speaker 3: you there and they would just geek out and talk
Speaker 3: about how much they loved the film and then they
Speaker 3: and then they would do the coolest tricks while I
Speaker 3: fell off my bike. But but no, I mean, like
Speaker 3: it was amazing, but it didn't change a whole lot
Speaker 3: in the sense that, like, you know, I just I think,
Speaker 3: I think for me and probably best because there wasn't
Speaker 3: a whole lot of social media out there. I just
Speaker 3: stuck to, you know, stay with my friends and didn't
Speaker 3: think I was any different than anybody else, you know.
Speaker 3: And I think that was kind of a big thing,
Speaker 3: is that my mom made sure I didn't get a
Speaker 3: big head, you know, and and stayed humble, and that
Speaker 3: was kind of the most important part. So I feel
Speaker 3: lucky in that sense.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 4: The Disney Channel original movies, they seem to have these
Speaker 4: little tropes that we talked about, and a lot of
Speaker 4: times it's either like the big sister or big brother
Speaker 4: or what someone's always a jerk in the family. This
Speaker 4: this turnaround was the dad. I don't think I hated
Speaker 4: a dad more in my life, like worst dad.
Speaker 2: Truth back.
Speaker 4: But your character and Alana, you guys had such great chemistry.
Speaker 4: You come out like this golden child of a brother
Speaker 4: that every sister would want to have, like totally backs
Speaker 4: her up on her dream, backs her up when he
Speaker 4: sees that there's a connection with a guy. I mean, wow.
Speaker 4: And not to mention just the chemistry you guys had
Speaker 4: as a brother and sister. Like I'm a mom now
Speaker 4: and it's like I wish, Mike, I hope my kids
Speaker 4: when they're older will love each other and support each other.
Speaker 2: I hope the motocrossed we're so great.
Speaker 3: I't like kids to watch it again too, so that
Speaker 3: they can.
Speaker 4: Do this is how to do it right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, absolutely, And I think and I think
Speaker 3: that's a testament to you know, like I said, just
Speaker 3: the relationships and recognizing people and what they're capable of,
Speaker 3: you know, And I think that's it is. It's really
Speaker 3: hard even with families, you know, because you're always trying
Speaker 3: to compete, you know, in a way. But I think,
Speaker 3: like again, even like with my brother, who was super
Speaker 3: really famous, you know, at the time, it was almost
Speaker 3: like I lost my name when I was a kid
Speaker 3: because it was like, oh, you're not Trivor O'Brien, You're
Speaker 3: Austin O'Brien's younger brother, right, you know. But my brother
Speaker 3: was really good at making sure that I was included,
Speaker 3: that I was important, that I knew what I was
Speaker 3: up to, and and so forth. And so I think
Speaker 3: that made a really big deep impact on me how
Speaker 3: I presented myself. And so, like I think even just
Speaker 3: getting to play this role, it felt really natural because
Speaker 3: it was like, yeah, what happens to his character stinks,
Speaker 3: you know, it sucks, he breaks his you know, messes
Speaker 3: up to me, can't write anymore. But the fact that
Speaker 3: he gets to see his sister doing something that she
Speaker 3: loves and supports her and and see her succeeding, Like
Speaker 3: that's really cool, And you're right, we need more of
Speaker 3: that in the world and in our life, you know,
Speaker 3: supporting each other and instead of going, oh, I want
Speaker 3: to be the one who wins, going if you're winning
Speaker 3: out and we're all winning, Yes, we need more of that.
Speaker 4: I love that. But your chemistry too, just showed like
Speaker 4: it looked like you guys honestly, the family guys have
Speaker 4: known each other. Yeah, you were a family.
Speaker 1: That means just it was so you were all you
Speaker 1: bound together to hate the horrible person that was your father.
Speaker 3: Because he was the nicest guy.
Speaker 1: Oh the actor might be the nicest guy in the world,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but oh god, the character was God.
Speaker 4: He was just like, what is your problem? He wasn't
Speaker 4: nice to you.
Speaker 3: A person he was because and how great of an
Speaker 3: actor he was. Yeah, absolutely right, just hate the man.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I seriously paused it the first time I watched it.
Speaker 1: I paused and had to leave the room. When he
Speaker 1: gave away her bedroom, I was like, I'm.
Speaker 2: Out, I can't I need a minute. I need a
Speaker 2: minute hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah to a young man, like to the French.
Speaker 2: Guy who knew was going to surrender halfway through the first.
Speaker 4: Race, Yeah, I just knew it.
Speaker 2: We always have.
Speaker 1: To ask now, because the chemistry was still popping on screen,
Speaker 1: was there any young romances happening as you were filming,
Speaker 1: anything going on with anybody on the set.
Speaker 3: If there were, I wasn't privy to it. So so no,
Speaker 3: as far as as far as I know that there,
Speaker 3: there weren't. Like I said, we just kind of all uh,
Speaker 3: you know, off off camera and off screen, just you know,
Speaker 3: rallied together. You know, we laughed a lot, we joked
Speaker 3: in between, and even like I said, you know, even
Speaker 3: with Timothy who played Dad, after all those takes where
Speaker 3: he was being a jerk, he would always go up
Speaker 3: and hug Alana and just be like, I'm sorry, really
Speaker 3: this way you know.
Speaker 1: Oh No, he's been in everything. He's a great actor.
Speaker 1: I mean, Ben, you've seen him a thousand times. But man,
Speaker 1: the character, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was It's a pretty rough role to play.
Speaker 2: That's got Oh, it absolutely is.
Speaker 1: Now, speaking of the chemistry and everything, are you still
Speaker 1: in touch with anybody from the film?
Speaker 3: You know, I haven't spoken to many of them for years,
Speaker 3: to be honest, I think probably the last time I
Speaker 3: had touched base with a feuven was I think it
Speaker 3: ran into them at some event about ten, maybe even
Speaker 3: fifteen years ago. But it's been it's been a long
Speaker 3: long time, you know, And like I said, I kind
Speaker 3: of I kind of got out of acting for a while.
Speaker 3: I was I was kind of doing some producing and
Speaker 3: doing some stuff on my own, and then I just
Speaker 3: got into building and was focusing on family for a
Speaker 3: long time. So I haven't done anything well, but now
Speaker 3: that my daughter's looking into it, I've been considered and
Speaker 3: getting back into acting a little bit myself or producing,
Speaker 3: and you know, we've got some ideas. We're just trying
Speaker 3: to get settled here in Georgia, get the house rebuilt,
Speaker 3: get over a few things. You know, it's just been
Speaker 3: it's been a bit hectic. I had I personally had
Speaker 3: cancer in twenty two so it's uh uh that was
Speaker 3: a trial and that kind of puts some hiccups on
Speaker 3: some things. Shee after my mom's house be Dance, found
Speaker 3: that she has cancer, so she's been battling that. So
Speaker 3: it's just been a bit of a whirlwind. But we've
Speaker 3: been so blessed. And honestly, I think coming out here
Speaker 3: saved my life because I was seeing doctors in California
Speaker 3: and they could figure it out. Came out here, figured
Speaker 3: it out and get to be here from a mom
Speaker 3: take care of her sore?
Speaker 2: Are you are you okay? Are you both doing well?
Speaker 3: So I'm in remission right now. Mom's still fighting and
Speaker 3: but she's you know, doing really well considering what she has.
Speaker 3: She's got stage four pancreatic cancer. Sorry to hear that, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but but you know, she's fighting really hard and she's
Speaker 3: doing really well. And so we've talked about doing film
Speaker 3: and we've even talked about maybe even bringing film here
Speaker 3: to the camp. You know, we're doing some stuff here
Speaker 3: on the on the camp property itself. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's big in my family too, so we're going through
Speaker 1: something similar.
Speaker 2: So it's it's rough.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's I'm so glad that you're doing well, though.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not to be down.
Speaker 2: But it's not at all. If there's a ton of
Speaker 2: people dealing with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's just it's it's something that people
Speaker 3: that feel like I've been going through a lot lately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my co host Danielle Fischer is going through it
Speaker 1: right My co host and my other podcast, Poping World,
Speaker 1: is going through it right now as well.
Speaker 3: Hard, you know, and so I just you know, I
Speaker 3: want people to know I like that we get to
Speaker 3: inspire people with some of the stuff that we're up
Speaker 3: to and what we're doing here. And I think that's
Speaker 3: the same goal that I have, you know, both with
Speaker 3: being an actor and with some of the leadership stuff
Speaker 3: that we want to do here on property and just
Speaker 3: you know, in general. So, like I said, I've been
Speaker 3: really blessed to be a part of you know, you know,
Speaker 3: Disney Channel Original movies and and acting and you know,
Speaker 3: everything from leadership to building to all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: So it's just been you know, a dream ben true
Speaker 3: just to kind of get to be what we're doing.
Speaker 3: And despite even all that stuff, you know, we can
Speaker 3: rise up, we can come through, we can power them
Speaker 3: through and surrounding themself with good people and last years
Speaker 3: and good positivity.
Speaker 1: I think, well, I'm proposing right now that we do
Speaker 1: something where we get all the old dcom actors together
Speaker 1: from all the dcoms that we can get as many
Speaker 1: as we can get to come and do the ropes
Speaker 1: course and everything.
Speaker 4: At you wonderful deal. Do you do you get people gloves?
Speaker 4: The last time I went, I did not get gloves.
Speaker 4: My hands were like completely just one big blister opened.
Speaker 4: They were awful.
Speaker 3: Special pair of gloves just for you, or you'll be the.
Speaker 4: Only one on Amazon link. I'll bring my own because
Speaker 4: that was just like I had the best day but
Speaker 4: suffered for like.
Speaker 3: I just had.
Speaker 4: Game, I know, and I felt like I was doing
Speaker 4: so well, but clearly I wasn't because I was squeezing.
Speaker 3: So right, Hey, I've done it. It's it's incredible, it's
Speaker 3: it's a breakthrough, you know, So I so cool. You
Speaker 3: can totally understand the feeling. But we'll make sure we
Speaker 3: have gloves were you to that way you can be
Speaker 3: fully present, and.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, Motocross came slightly before some of the other d
Speaker 1: coms that instantly got sequels. Do you know if there
Speaker 1: was ever a conversation on any level, did you guys
Speaker 1: ever talk about the possibility. Was it ever thrown around
Speaker 1: that maybe there'd be a motocross too.
Speaker 4: That came out?
Speaker 3: You know, I had actually heard some rumors about that,
Speaker 3: and I feel like they were thinking about it and
Speaker 3: in production. I don't really fully recall, but for some reason,
Speaker 3: I have this vague memory of seeing a motocross too
Speaker 3: like poster, and I don't know if that was just
Speaker 3: a speculation or if someone just did a spin off
Speaker 3: of it and you know, it didn't go anywhere. But yeah, man,
Speaker 3: that would be fun.
Speaker 4: I definitely had room to yeah with.
Speaker 3: The storyline version where you know, we get the parents
Speaker 3: of their kid writers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what I think it should be
Speaker 1: again throwing out a whole nother idea here for Disney
Speaker 1: and TM By the way, as I say, yes, they've
Speaker 1: got to take the kids from Brink. So now the
Speaker 1: parents they're they're the parents. So the kids from the
Speaker 1: stars of Brink, the kids from the stars of Motocross,
Speaker 1: the kids from the stars of Johnny Tsunami, and it's
Speaker 1: an X Games where they all come together and it's
Speaker 1: all the kids from all the extreme dcoms come together
Speaker 1: to do next game.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Trademark gotta do that. Oh, there was so much fun.
Speaker 3: I'm so in That sounds amazing.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, we love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And then there's one of the things that we
Speaker 4: were talking about is, you know, the movie She's the
Speaker 4: Man completely just ripped this entire idea because it's motocross,
Speaker 4: but it's a soccer game. It's a soccer thing, and
Speaker 4: it's with Amanda Bynes will you Have you ever seen it?
Speaker 3: I have not.
Speaker 2: I have not. It's the same thing.
Speaker 4: She goes to college Channing Tatum.
Speaker 2: Channing Tatum was in that way, geez no.
Speaker 3: I've got to see this now.
Speaker 4: But it's the same movie. It's literally but it's soccer.
Speaker 4: And I believe the motocross came first, so that if so,
Speaker 4: they ripped it from you guys, because.
Speaker 1: This again, in all fairness, it was based on Twelfth
Speaker 1: Night two, so they all ripped it off from the.
Speaker 2: Sixteen hundreds, which that's true Shakespeare.
Speaker 4: There's nothing and I did like She's the Man, But
Speaker 4: the motocross scenes where whenever they're on a bike, the
Speaker 4: whole time you're just sitting on the edge of your seat,
Speaker 4: it looks so good that they did phenomenal in showing
Speaker 4: this world that had not been shown on the channel before.
Speaker 4: It was a like a you know, a big sport
Speaker 4: that was really exploding at the time.
Speaker 2: It was huge.
Speaker 4: That looked so incredible to the point where I mean,
Speaker 4: no matter what, if you're going to see one of
Speaker 4: those scenes, you're going to stop and watch it because
Speaker 4: it's like it just brings you right into the screen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's so true, It really was, and you
Speaker 3: should have seen it in purpose, you know, in person.
Speaker 3: The track that they made just even around the house
Speaker 3: in the in the film, the jump that they had
Speaker 3: come off that one hill and came down was so huge.
Speaker 3: They were so high in the air. Wow, higher than
Speaker 3: most motocross tracks that which is why I was like,
Speaker 3: this is insane. And they built it around this guy's house,
Speaker 3: you know, for for the duration of filming, and the
Speaker 3: writers were just phenomenal.
Speaker 1: So now did you get to watch when they when
Speaker 1: they were when they were filming all the big racing
Speaker 1: scenes and all the stunts and all that. Were you
Speaker 1: there for most of that stuff? Were you watching all
Speaker 1: this stuff happen in real time?
Speaker 3: For for some of it, yeah, I mean mainly the
Speaker 3: stuff that was happening around the house. But again there
Speaker 3: was a few times where my character was at the track. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that was happened to be the same day that
Speaker 3: I know, Jeremy McGrath and Travis Stawa and Steve Lampson
Speaker 3: were all there, and and I think even Sean and
Speaker 3: Collier and uh remember Brian Deegus or something like that. Anyways,
Speaker 3: they they were there and uh, it was it was just,
Speaker 3: like I said, it was a dream come true. They
Speaker 3: had all the big, you know, cool trucks, the gear,
Speaker 3: the riders, the you know, and so yeah, you got
Speaker 3: to be part of the whole thing. And I mean,
Speaker 3: if there was any more sensations that I think you
Speaker 3: could have for this film, it's like, I wish you
Speaker 3: could have the smell. I don't know why their bike
Speaker 3: exaut smells the best it does.
Speaker 2: It does it's the two stroke. It's the oil. It's
Speaker 2: the oil and the gas from the two stroke with
Speaker 2: a ring.
Speaker 3: It's just it was just the coolest experience to get
Speaker 3: to be there and see him do it. And yeah,
Speaker 3: they're incredible. They're what they're capable of doing physically on
Speaker 3: those bikes is just phenomenal. I don't know how they
Speaker 3: do it so well. And they're just fearless. I mean,
Speaker 3: these guys are fearless and they've just it's got so
Speaker 3: much strength and so it's really really, really fun.
Speaker 4: Do you remember for for Alana's character, was that a
Speaker 4: male or female rider that they had. I mean, I
Speaker 4: know they had a wig when her hair was longer.
Speaker 3: I think it was actually a male rider, but I
Speaker 3: don't want to say that because that takes away.
Speaker 1: From the from the bottom film.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't even think back then there there
Speaker 4: was a ton of female professional riders. I'm sure there
Speaker 4: are now, oh yeah yeah, But back then it didn't
Speaker 4: seem like I don't remember like a name that was
Speaker 4: really big in that field. So I was just going,
Speaker 4: I wonder if they were, because in Bring that wasn't.
Speaker 4: We talked about it, and I think one of the
Speaker 4: skaters that was supposed to be the female skater was
Speaker 4: not always a female skater. So it's it was tough
Speaker 4: in extreme sports to find.
Speaker 3: And that happened. That happens a lot in fact, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what's actually funny is what my brother do was doing
Speaker 3: stunts in Last Action Hero. His stunt person was actually female.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're out there and uh and like
Speaker 3: you said, you're right, I don't think there were a ton,
Speaker 3: But since then, I mean, I can't tell you how
Speaker 3: many stunt riders that are females I've seen who are
Speaker 3: just phenomenal, whether it's motocross, streets, stunting, any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some VMX, skateboarding anything. Yeah, they're they're amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just curiously, if there were a Motocross two, what would
Speaker 1: your character be doing?
Speaker 3: Now? Hopefully not being a jerk dad like Motocross one.
Speaker 3: So that's my hope, at least, I hope I would
Speaker 3: be a little more supportive of like my daughter, you know, riding.
Speaker 2: Or even just cheerleading. He didn't even care that you
Speaker 2: want a trophy cheerleading.
Speaker 3: It's like, and I think that's really what's interesting, is
Speaker 3: like I'm super involved in my kids and what they're
Speaker 3: up to. Uh they, like I said, my daughter's doing,
Speaker 3: you know a lot of theater stuff. I drive my
Speaker 3: son to jiu jitsu every time he has class, you know.
Speaker 3: So I think being involved and I think learning from
Speaker 3: you know, Motocross one is the key here. And so
Speaker 3: I mean I think I would just I would have
Speaker 3: to be that supportive dad and you know, and make
Speaker 3: make sure I don't follow my father's footsteps. You know.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 4: We can't we can't let this interview go without bringing
Speaker 4: up one of my favorite movies, Dodgeball. I'm absolute cult classic, honestly,
Speaker 4: just great movie. How was that on set filming with these.
Speaker 3: I mean icon I mean it was the iconic you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, the interview process was, you know, rigorous. What
Speaker 3: was really really cool is when you know, when I
Speaker 3: got to set the first day there, I saw Ben
Speaker 3: Stiller and I and I immediately wanted to go up
Speaker 3: and say hello. And I see him take a bee
Speaker 3: line straight for me, and I'm just like, oh no,
Speaker 3: that comes up to me. He's like, Trevor, what's up, man,
Speaker 3: You're so funny, I'm so glad you're here and all
Speaker 3: the stuff. And I'm sitting there going like, Steelers, tell
Speaker 3: me I'm funny, like and you know, he'd watched my
Speaker 3: tape and you know, he was one of the producers,
Speaker 3: and it was just a dream come true. I mean,
Speaker 3: that was that was so much fun to be a
Speaker 3: part of that role. I got to play a jerk
Speaker 3: in that that films don't hate me too much. Whatever,
Speaker 3: you were a great film. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I the only thing that and I understand why they
Speaker 3: did it, But the only thing I wish is I
Speaker 3: wish that more people knew about the scene where I
Speaker 3: actually break every bone in my body and I'm in
Speaker 3: a full body cast and all the cheerleaders are spitting
Speaker 3: in my face.
Speaker 2: What did they show that did you film that?
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I had to have a full body cast made.
Speaker 3: It took for them to make it on me, and
Speaker 3: then we made it, you know, before filming, and then
Speaker 3: when it was time to film, it took them an
Speaker 3: hour and a half for me to put it on me.
Speaker 3: And then I was stuck in that thing for about
Speaker 3: another eight hours. Oh fully, shit.
Speaker 2: No, And then they didn't even use it.
Speaker 3: And they didn't even use it, and like I'm supposed
Speaker 3: to be, I'm in it. I'm yelling and I'm angry,
Speaker 3: and at one point I'm shaking the things so hard
Speaker 3: I almost vibrate off the table and they had to
Speaker 3: come over and grab me and reposition me because I
Speaker 3: was gonna eat it and there was nothing stopping me them.
Speaker 3: I couldn't do anything about it. But but it was
Speaker 3: so much fun. We filmed in multiple locations. I think
Speaker 3: we're in Vegas, uh for you know one of the scenes,
Speaker 3: and we just had a blast. Like again, everyone was
Speaker 3: so cool. Everyone was so fun, just along as hilarious
Speaker 3: fence wand you know, everybody was just amazing in that film. However,
Speaker 3: I started showing that one the unedited version to my
Speaker 3: twelve and fourteen year old and realized quickly, yeah, not yet,
Speaker 3: but we're not there.
Speaker 2: We're not there yet.
Speaker 3: Wait about five minutes into it, I was.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, I totally forgot let's put motocross down again.
Speaker 3: All my films and rightfully so oh but Dodgeball was amazing.
Speaker 3: It was so much fun to be a part of
Speaker 3: that film.
Speaker 2: That's such a good movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got some bangers on your IMDb list, I
Speaker 1: mean great with some incredible actors.
Speaker 2: You've gotten to work with some of the best in
Speaker 2: the business. I mean literally some of the best in
Speaker 2: the business.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I mean, like I said, I've been I've
Speaker 3: been really, really lucky. You know, everything from I got
Speaker 3: to work with you Laurie on House. I got to
Speaker 3: pop punch John Hamm in the back of the head
Speaker 3: on mad Men. I worked with Dwayne Johnson, you know,
Speaker 3: for three months on grid Iron Gang, which was an
Speaker 3: awesome film.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's been like I said, it's it's been
Speaker 3: a pretty uh amazing, amazing life. And you know it's
Speaker 3: had up and down moments, but you know that's life.
Speaker 3: That's the way it goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's life.
Speaker 1: Oh geez, well, Trevor, thank you so much for taking
Speaker 1: the time today.
Speaker 2: This has been amazing.
Speaker 1: And the people when they even just get to see
Speaker 1: the clip of you pop On wearing yeah, the actual
Speaker 1: motorcycle shirt, it's forgotten, just forget it.
Speaker 4: I hope you guys at home with just boxes and
Speaker 4: boxes of like all of I mean, Fox, all those
Speaker 4: companies that That's one of the first things I noticed.
Speaker 3: This stuff is ancient, but it is so good. I
Speaker 3: couldn't believe it. I was like, I forgot I had
Speaker 3: all this stuff right man.
Speaker 4: And it's not normal for any kind of brand to
Speaker 4: be shown on the channel at all. That's one of
Speaker 4: the first things I was going, Oh my, look at
Speaker 4: this sponsoring, Like the Disney Channel never does that. No Nike, no,
Speaker 4: no Adidas. So but it was perfect for it to
Speaker 4: be this movie for these brands that completely just like
Speaker 4: were they just prem like cream of the crop brands
Speaker 4: during that time, especially you know, in this world. So
Speaker 4: I hope you had boxes of it because it just
Speaker 4: was everywhere. It was amazing.
Speaker 3: I took as much as I could and I bought
Speaker 3: the rest.
Speaker 4: And I love it. I love that you bought those
Speaker 4: bikes and I.
Speaker 2: Want those bikes.
Speaker 3: I want the I know like every every time I
Speaker 3: think about it, I'm like, I should have found a
Speaker 3: different way to get some money.
Speaker 2: Oh god, it's so funny, crazy, oh man.
Speaker 1: But thank you so much for joining us, and we
Speaker 1: will see you on the ropes course with Sabrina in
Speaker 1: her gloves and gloves I can wait.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, will Sabria.
Speaker 2: You guys are amazing, Thank you so much. Can you
Speaker 2: tell us the name of the company that you're launching
Speaker 2: again coming up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Luminary Leadership Academy, And like I said, we're
Speaker 3: launching in twenty twenty five, and you know, there's expect
Speaker 3: big things, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Where can everyone kind of just keep up with
Speaker 4: anything that's going on with you? Are you on social
Speaker 4: media at all or yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I'm definitely. I'm on Facebook, I have some
Speaker 3: Instagram and I'm actually I've been thinking about storting my
Speaker 3: YouTube channel backup for my building and some other stuff
Speaker 3: that we want to do wrong property. So I don't
Speaker 3: have that quite set up yet because we've been in
Speaker 3: the midst of you.
Speaker 2: Know, kind of busy.
Speaker 3: You're kind of busy, but I do. I wish I
Speaker 3: had been filming this entire time, because it has been
Speaker 3: quite the whirlwind, moving from la to Georgia, to a
Speaker 3: farm to a camp, to everything that we've been through.
Speaker 3: But I couldn't think some recaps and and set that up.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you can find me on Facebook and or Instagram. Okay,
Speaker 3: good O'Brien Fine Carpentry was my business there, so you
Speaker 3: can see some of my stuff there and my story there.
Speaker 2: So that's great.
Speaker 4: Wow. Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Trevor.
Speaker 1: And we're glad that you decided not to pick up
Speaker 1: your children so you can come and talk with us.
Speaker 2: I'm kidding. We know your wife is going. I know
Speaker 2: you're thank you so much. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you all, bye bye.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Wow, what a story, well, not just the movies he's
Speaker 1: been a part of, in the people that he's worked with,
Speaker 1: but the story of starting as an actor essentially from
Speaker 1: the time you before you even know you're a person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so by the time you come of any sort of consciousness,
Speaker 1: you're already in the business totally. Your older brother's a
Speaker 1: huge success. Then you become a huge success. You're working
Speaker 1: with everybody. Then you decide you need a big change
Speaker 1: in your life. You move all the way across the country.
Speaker 1: Now you're living on a farm, you overcome cancer, you're
Speaker 1: now rebuilding after a fire.
Speaker 2: It's like you couldn't script this stuff. This is why
Speaker 2: true life is always going to be so much better than.
Speaker 1: Hollywood, because you could not script the stories that he
Speaker 1: just told us. And he's sitting there with a big smile,
Speaker 1: telling everybody, I'm now going to work on having other
Speaker 1: teach other people how to lead and do things.
Speaker 4: I mean, just yeah, amazing, amazing, so cool. You can
Speaker 4: tell he just like there's just he's got so much
Speaker 4: in him, so many different ideas, and it's amazing because
Speaker 4: sometimes that's not how it goes, you know, especially if
Speaker 4: you had a really strong career. It's hard to keep
Speaker 4: finding what that next journey is for you. And it
Speaker 4: seems like he's just on a mission, you know, And
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: That's being a stepdad.
Speaker 1: It's it's awesome to talk to other people who are
Speaker 1: so proud of being stepdads. I'm super prib. I always
Speaker 1: joke about not having kids. I didn't have to, which
Speaker 1: is great. But she's still one of my closest friends
Speaker 1: and I love her to debt. So like being a
Speaker 1: stepdad hearing all that and then the blended family man
Speaker 1: that is an inspiring person to talk to you. So,
Speaker 1: Trevor O'Brien, thank you so much for joining us and
Speaker 1: everybody else. Don't forget that you can follow us everywhere
Speaker 1: on the mag Well it's not everywhere, it's actually just Instagram,
Speaker 1: isn't it on the Magical Reline Pod on the old
Speaker 1: Instagram machine. This is obviously talked to somebody who does
Speaker 1: know no social media whatsoever. So thank you everybody so
Speaker 1: much for joining us on this park Hopper episode. We
Speaker 1: got to interview the incredible Trevor O'Brien. What a story
Speaker 1: and join us next time where our movie is going
Speaker 1: to be Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire, which
Speaker 1: I think is going to be about squirrels. No, I'm
Speaker 1: getting dragons. Hopefully it's gonna be about Mom dating a vampire.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody, and we will see you next time.
Speaker 2: Bye,